Featured photo: The Ono's Traditional Hawaiian Cuisine food truck serves a crowd at Sainte Terre in Benton on Sept. 23, 2016. 2016 was a fascinating year in the Shreveport-Bossier food and drink scene. New restaurants...

Featured photo: Smoked Mahaffey Farms ribs are on the menu at The Levee, which recently opened for breakfast and lunch at 520 East Kings Highway in Shreveport. Maybe it’s a sign of the ever-evolving nature…

Featured photo: A Detroit-style Coney from Top Dawg Hot Dawg. These hot dogs are decidedly more delicious than they are photogenic. Anthony Fodale’s Top Dawg Hot Dawg is a new hot dog cart serving Detroit-style Coneys…

Featured Photo: Baton Rouge-based chef and food personality Jay Ducote will cook at the Pineywoods Supper Club event on Sunday, Nov. 20. Photo by Jenn Ocken Photography and used courtesy of Jay Ducote. Over the past…

Featured photo: Chef Ernest Palmisano Jr. stands in the lounge of his restaurant in Shreveport on a Tuesday afternoon. The final one-night-only dinner experience of the inaugural 318 Restaurant Week will be held on Saturday, Nov….

Full Disclosure: The Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau, publishers of 20×49.com, are organizers of 318 Restaurant Week along with The Times. There’s a lot going on during the first-ever 318 Restaurant Week, Nov. 1-5, 2016,…

Featured Photo: “Adult Coke floats” will be served at Cloud 9 Café during a 1950s-themed night on Wednesday, Nov. 2 during the first-ever 318 Restaurant Week. As far as “stunt burgers” go – hamburgers that are outlandishly…

Featured photo: A daily special from Cloud 9 Café. “It’s like Cheers in here, but without the alcohol,” Tina Palmisano says of her new restaurant at Shreveport Downtown Airport, Cloud 9 Café. She is correct that there’s…

Featured photo: Chef Eddie Hughes, the late owner of Eddie’s Seafood & Soul Food Restaurant, poses with a giant platter of stuffed shrimp. Photo provided by the Hughes family. As I have shared before on…

Featured Photo: Herby-K’s co-owner David Doe demonstrates how to eat a shrimp buster for a pair of hungry travelers. Photo by Jim Noetzel. Deadline extended! The new deadline to enter this giveaway is midnight on…